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"When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you."

– Milton Friedman

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." - 1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan, 1985

"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." - CAPT Stephen Decatur, USN, 1816

"Buy quality: cry once. Buy cheap: cry everytime you use it." - Unknown

"It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get." - Ben Hogan

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing..."

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."


Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

"No matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd."

"Does a bear **** in the woods?"

"You cannot antagonize and persuade at the same time."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."

Benjamin Braddock

The first time it's a favor; the second time it's a habit. - Old Chinese Proverb

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